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Cosmos in a Nutshell

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an object orbiting another object satellite
an object that orbits a star and is massive enough for its own gravity to force it into a spherical shape planet
an object that orbits the sun and is big enough to be round but doesn't clear away all objects near its orbit dwarf planet
a small, rocky object that orbits the sun asteroid
a small or medium sized piece of rock or metal from space meteoroid
a piece of a meteroid that hits the ground meteorite
the region in the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune; plutoids are located here Kuiper Belt
a type of dwarf planet that has an orbit beyond Neptune plutoid
a cloud of gas and dust in space between stars nebula
an explosion that ends a star's life supernova
red giant the stage of a star when it becomesv very large and has a relatively cool surface
white dwarf the stage of a star wher eit has no fuel for nuclear reactions
black hole an extremely dense cosmic object that can form after a star becomes a supernova
galaxy an enormous collection of tens of millions to hundreds of billions of stars, interstellar gas, and dust
Milky Way Galaxy the name of the galaxy that our solar system is a part of
Magellanic clouds the galaxies closest to the Milky Way
Big Bang Theory a theory that one explosion created the universe.
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